🧠 NotesByPrabin — Personal Knowledge Base

A structured Obsidian vault for thinking, learning, and building a second brain.

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🎯 What This Is

This is Prabin's personal Obsidian vault — a living, evolving knowledge base built using the ACE (Atlas, Calendar, Efforts) organizational framework, extended with a personal bibliography, visual diagrams via Excalidraw, and academic references from Zotero.

Selected notes marked with dg-publish: true are automatically published to the live digital garden at prabins.vercel.app via the Digital Garden Plugin and the pk_base site template.

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📁 Vault Structure

NotesByPrabin/
├── ATLAS/            # Maps of Content (MOC) — index notes linking ideas together
├── Bibliography/     # Reference notes, summaries, and source annotations
├── CALENDER/         # Daily notes, journals, and time-based records
├── EFFORTS/          # Active projects, goals, and ongoing work
├── Excalidraw/       # Visual diagrams, mind maps, and sketches
├── Extras/           # Miscellaneous notes and temporary files
├── Kanban Boards/    # Task and project management boards
├── Prabin's KB ~/    # Core personal knowledge base — the main hub
├── ZoteroExports/    # Academic references exported from Zotero
└── webclips/         # Saved and annotated web articles

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🔄 Publishing Workflow

Notes in this vault can be selectively published to the live site:

1. Add dg-publish: true to a note's YAML frontmatter
2. Open the Digital Garden plugin panel in Obsidian → click Publish
3. The plugin pushes the note to PrabinKuSabat/pk_base via the GitHub API
4. Vercel detects the push, rebuilds, and the note is live at prabins.vercel.app ⚡

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🛠️ Key Plugins Used

Plugin	Purpose
Digital Garden	Publish selected notes to the live website
Excalidraw	Create and embed visual whiteboard diagrams
Zotero Integration	Import academic references directly from Zotero
Kanban	Visual drag-and-drop task management boards
Dataview	Query notes as a dynamic database
ExcaliBrain	Interactive visual graph of note relationships

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📄 Root-Level Notes

File	Purpose
Homepage.md	Vault home dashboard — the entry point
Buffer.md	Inbox — quick capture zone for unprocessed thoughts
TO-DO List.md	Active personal to-do items
excalibrain.md	ExcaliBrain visual graph entry point

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🔒 Privacy Note

This vault is a private personal knowledge base. The majority of notes are not published publicly. Only notes with dg-publish: true in their frontmatter appear on the live site. Everything else stays local.

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Maintained by Prabin Kumar Sabat · Powered by Obsidian

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Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
_{Prasanthi Nilayam (Puttaparthi) — Department of Mathematics and Computer Science}